The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-28
BISHOP KAlN'S TALK
n REDEMPTION YESTERDAY.
The Arguments he Advanced to Establish
tho Claim that tho Roman Catholic
Church Is tho True scriptural.. Means
OF Redemption to the Human Race.

yesterday RI Rev. Bishop Kahn gave a
brief summary OF the progressive steps
made In tho development OF his theme
the Redemption through Christ. The
Son OF God bscame.man!to ransom the
human race from sin and It's effects. That
ransom He paid by the shedding Of His
blood for their salvation. What means
did He establish to bring all men to a
knowledge Of their Divine Redeemer, and
to a participation in His redemption7
This question tho Bishop answered:
HE organized His church, commissioned
pastors and appointed Peter chief shep.
herd over His flock. To the pastors Of
His church He gave a two.fold!ofice; they
were to be teachers Of all revealed truth,
and ministers Of the graces Of redemption.
"That church which was destined to
discharge this double Office until the end
Of time, may be unmistakably recognized
by the description given Of 1t in the Holy
Scriptures. Among other marks which
there characterize 1t, four are 30 manifest
that they enter into the earliest Ohriatian
formulas OF faith, and are thus summed
up In the Constantinopotitan creed: II
believe in one, holy, Catholic and apostolic
church. These iour distinctive marks OF
the church founded by the Divine Re.
deemer, belong to the Roman Catholic
church alone; therefore that is the true
church described Ia the Holy Scriptures.
"The Roman Catholic church possesses
unity Of doctrine; Tor all her millions Of
children profess n same faith the very
same, taught by the Apostles, and handed
down by their successors in all lis purity
and integrity. She possesses unity Of
worship. having everywhere thasame di.
vine sacrifice and the same sacramehtal
means Of comforting grace. She possesoea
unity Of government, the entire flock Of
Chriat recognizing Peter in his successor,
the Bishop Of Rome as their chief visible
shepherd and the ruler Of Christ's earthly
kingdom, tho keys Of which were en-.
trusted to him by our Lord. F4 ,y..g
1.-THE Roman Catholic church claims the
mark OF holiness, because all her doctrines
tendto sanctify bot htheindividual believer
and society at large; because, too, she
ministers sanctiiying grace through her
holy ordinances; and also because she has
produced 80 many thousand exemplars Of
most heroic virtues. The mark OF
catholicity is SO peculiarly her own, that
she has no rival claimant. She alone has
chrlstianized whole nations; she alone is
to-day the church OF all nations. The
conversion Of nations can be accomplish
ed by no other fundamentally than that
church which Christcommissioned for that
work. That she alone has eyer converted
nations, is a fact Of history, which abun-
dainty proves Christ's presence with her.
Protected by His promised presence, she
cannot fail 10 teach the whole body Of re-
vealed truth entrusted to her keeping.
She also claima to be the only apostolic
chruch; the only church which receives
its doctrine, it's orders, and its mission
from Christ through the apostles. She
points to the unbroken line OF Roman
Pontifa succeeding one another in the
chair Of Peter, as the surest and plainest
proof Of her lineal descent from the
apostles.
"The exclusive possession OF these four
essential traits Of the Scripture church
establishes her claim to be tho one only
true church Of Christ"
The Bishop then added q brief expoai-
ton Of several other points as cumulative
evidence in favor OF his church. Her in.
tense consciousness Of the sublime pre-
negatives conferred upon her by the sa-
vior for the benefit OF mankind her power
in REFRESHING the unruly passions Of man
and winning his obedience and his love
despite her severe requirements; the
many brilliant triumphs over ali the
powers Of the world and the devil that
mark her pathway in history the gradual
adoption by the children Of the Reforma-
ton Of the very doctrines and practices
their ancestors so denounced as to make
them the ground Of their revolt and
schism in the sixteenth century; and ''the
fatal consequence to which the Protestant
theory Of private judgment logically leads,
rendering faith impossible and overturn-
ing the foundation of sven natural relig-
ion"-were all touched on in a summary
way. .
Next Sunday the Bishop will conclude
his Lenten course by a further exposition
OF what he and his church regard IS the
fatal tendencies Of the Protestant system.